Paul Kengor QUOTES

1 " What was Ted Kennedy up to in May 1983 with that offer to Yuri Andropov via the KGB? "

― Paul Kengor , DUPES: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century

2 " The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, the preeminent US-based center for detailing communist crimes, cites the figure of 100 million deaths. Numerous others agree and could be listed here. Dr. Malia aptly noted that the communist record offers the 'most colossal case of political carnage in history. "

― Paul Kengor , The Devil and Karl Marx: Communism's Long March of Death, Deception, and Infiltration

3 " Only in the detached from reality world of goofy Hollywood and modern academia could a mass murderer like Che Guevara be turned into something of a cult celebrity. "

― Paul Kengor , The Politically Incorrect Guide to Communism

4 " The success of Communism naturally depends on altering human nature because few things are more inherent in human nature than the ownership of property. This basic human right is as ancient as the ten commandments where God ordained that 'Thou Shall Not Steal'. The commandment implicitly acknowledges that persons have possessions and that they have an inherent right to that property. So it is thus not permissible for others to take it away from them. But Marx & Engels weren't about to admit the right to private property that we find even in the bible. "

― Paul Kengor , The Politically Incorrect Guide to Communism

5 " The Marxist maxim is 'agitate, agitate, agitate', and that is precisely what today's reds are doing with race. "

― Paul Kengor , The Politically Incorrect Guide to Communism

6 " In 1999, The Black Book of Communism endeavored to attempt the impossible task of tabulating a Marxist-Leninist death toll in the twentieth century. It came up with a figure approaching 100 million. Here is the breakdown:

*USSR: 20 million deaths
*China: 65 million deaths
*Vietnam: 1 million deaths
*North Korea: 2 million deaths
*Cambodia: 2 million deaths
*Eastern Europe: 1 million deaths
*Latin America: 150,000 deaths
*Africa: 1.7 million deaths
*Afghanistan: 1.5 million deaths
*The international communist movement and
Communist parties not in power:
about 10,000 deaths "

― Paul Kengor , The Devil and Karl Marx: Communism's Long March of Death, Deception, and Infiltration

7 " In the end, the actions of such liberals have the effect---again unwittingly---of continuing to cover for the goals of the extreme Left. Yet again, the soft Left is helping to conceal the hard Left, whether it realizes it or not. "

― Paul Kengor , DUPES: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century

8 " The people who influence our presidents matter. "

― Paul Kengor , The Communist

9 " These liberals were prey, typically made vulnerable by their misplaced trust in the far left. They mistakenly saw American Communists as their friends and as simply another group of citizens practicing civil liberties in a democratic society based on First Amendment freedoms. Most liberals, obviously, were not themselves Communists, but in sharing the left portion of the ideological spectrum, they shared with the Communists many key sympathies: workers’ rights, the redistribution of wealth, an expansive federal government, a favoring of the public sector over the private sector, class-based rhetoric (often demagoguery) "

― Paul Kengor , DUPES: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century

10 " So why aren’t you dead?” The shooter was incredulous: “I know I was aiming right. I know that the bullet was a killer. So why aren’t you dead?”92 Dziwisz, standing a few yards away from the conversation, sensed that Agca was “terrified by the fact that there were forces bigger than he was.” The Muslim had found out that there was not just one Fátima—that is, Muhammad’s favorite daughter—but also another one, whom he called the “goddess of Fátima.” According to Dziwisz, Agca, who thought in terms of divine retribution, told John Paul II that he was afraid that this powerful “goddess” would avenge herself on him and “get rid of” him. "

― Paul Kengor , A Pope and a President: John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and the Extraordinary Untold Story of the 20th Century

11 " journalists—American Communists targeted the 1968 Democratic National Convention, in part for the purpose of trying to advance their own far-left third party. Bear in mind that they did not target the Republican National Convention that year. It was the Democrats they looked to unravel. "

― Paul Kengor , DUPES: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century

12 " Incredibly, in November 1933, FDR appointed this giddy member of Stalin's fan club as America's first U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union. "

― Paul Kengor , DUPES: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century

13 " Ultimately, Reagan presided over the largest tax cut in American history, and accomplished it working in tandem with (rather than against) a huge Democratic Party majority in the House. It was a bipartisan triumph. The Washington Post called Reagan’s accomplishment “one of the most remarkable demonstrations of presidential leadership in modern history.” After a slow start through 1982–1983, the stimulus effect of the Reagan tax cuts was extraordinary, sparking the longest peacetime expansion/recovery in the nation’s history: ninety-two consecutive months, far surpassing the previous record of fifty-eight months. "

― Paul Kengor , 11 Principles of a Reagan Conservative

14 " Overall, the “Reagan boom” not only produced widespread prosperity but—along with the attendant Soviet collapse—helped generate budget surpluses in the 1990s. Carter-Ford-era terms like “malaise” and “misery index” vanished. Only during the Obama years, and specifically in 2011, has America reapproached similar misery-index levels, reaching a twenty-eight-year high.133 Finally, aside from the matter of the economic impact of the tax cuts, it is important to understand that tax cuts were the very essence of Reaganomics. Reagan conservatism, in the realm of economic policy, is first and foremost about tax cuts. "

― Paul Kengor , 11 Principles of a Reagan Conservative

15 " The truth on the subject is that communism and atheism are intrinsically related and that one cannot be a good Communist without being an atheist and every atheist is a potential Communist, "

― Paul Kengor , A Pope and a President: John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and the Extraordinary Untold Story of the 20th Century

16 " The criticism of religion disillusions man, so that he will think, act, and fashion his reality like a man who has discarded his illusions and regained his senses, so that he will move around himself as his own true Sun. Religion is only the illusory Sun which revolves around man as long as he does not revolve around himself. "

― Paul Kengor , The Devil and Karl Marx: Communism's Long March of Death, Deception, and Infiltration

17 " It was December 30, 1933, and the author of the Great Purge wined and dined Bullitt. At the end of a lovely evening together, FDR's new ambassador bade Stalin goodnight with a tender kiss on the cheek; the doting despot dutifully reciprocated.24 "

― Paul Kengor , DUPES: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century

18 " When man makes himself his own Sun—that is, his own God—then he destroys his world. As ex-communist Whittaker Chambers observed, Marx and his minions were merely echoing the first mistake of man, initiated way back in the Garden of Eden: ye shall be as gods. "

― Paul Kengor , The Devil and Karl Marx: Communism's Long March of Death, Deception, and Infiltration

19 " Marx finished his destructive passage with an exhortation to history, to philosophy, to law, to politics to undertake the secular righteous “task” to “establish the truth of this world.” What truth? That truth, alas, was Marx’s “truth.” Ye shall be as gods. "

― Paul Kengor , The Devil and Karl Marx: Communism's Long March of Death, Deception, and Infiltration

20 " For that matter, just as Marx was not very impressed with Christians, he also was quite unimpressed with Christianity. And for those modern-day “social justice” Christians who like to invoke communism as somehow consistent with or reflective of Christian social teaching, well, Karl Marx begged to differ. “The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility,” scowled Marx. “The social principles of Christianity are hypocritical. … So much for the social principles of Christianity.”68 "

― Paul Kengor , The Devil and Karl Marx: Communism's Long March of Death, Deception, and Infiltration